Yuzhny
Южный
Urban-type settlement[1]
(abolished)
Location of Yuzhny
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Yuzhny is located in Russia
Yuzhny
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Location of Yuzhny
Yuzhny is located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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Yuzhny
Yuzhny (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)
Coordinates: 69°26′02″N 171°57′11″E / 69.43389°N 171.95306°E / 69.43389; 171.95306
CountryRussia
Federal subjectChukotka Autonomous Okrug[2]
Administrative districtChaunsky District[2]
Founded1950 (Julian)Edit this on Wikidata
Abolished1998[3]
 • Municipal districtChaunsky Municipal District[4]
Time zoneUTC+12 (MSK+9 Edit this on Wikidata[5])
OKTMO ID77705000074

Yuzhny (Russian: Ю́жный) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Chaunsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, situated southeast of Chaunskaya Bay, about 70 kilometers (43 mi) south of Pevek, the administrative center of the district. Though the settlement is abandoned, the mining company "Chukotka" still works in the area.[6] As of 2011 Yuzhny was included in the list of settlements to be liquidated.[1]

History

Yuzhny was the first of the gold mines to be opened in Chukotka in 1950,[7] by a group of geologists.[8] Having started out as a normal business employing prospectors, the mines became part of Chaunchukotlag, the local division of the gulag system.

The mines were declared unprofitable and that there was no possibility of developing any other form of economy in 1999 and the settlement was closed along with a number of others in Chukotka.[3] The Russian government guaranteed funds to transport non-working pensioners and the unemployed in liquidated settlements including Yuzhny from Chukotka to other parts of Russia.[3] The Ministry of railways was obliged to lease containers for the transportation of the migrants' goods to the Chukotkan administration and ensure that they were delivered to the various settlements.[3]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c Law #33, Article 14.2
  2. ^ a b Directive #517-rp
  3. ^ a b c d Постановление Правительства РФ от 2 февраля 1998 г. N 128 О мерах социальной защиты населения ликвидируемых поселков золотодобытчиков в Чукотском автономном округe (Russian Federation Government resolution dated February 2, 1998 No. 128 on measures of social protection of the population of liquidating estates gold miners in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug "Russian Federation Government resolution dated February 2, 1998 No. 128 on measures of social protection of the population of liquidating estates gold miners in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug).
  4. ^ a b Law #46
  5. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  6. ^ Региональный портал Дальний Восток[permanent dead link], Dalny Vostok, Regional Portal, 12 May 2012
  7. ^ Dead-cities.ru. Yuzhny (in Russian)
  8. ^ Чемоданов Н.И. В двух шагах от Северного полюса. Записки геолога. Archived May 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine N.I. Chemodanov, Two Steps from the Pole: Notes from a Geologist. Magadan Publishing House, 1968. 64 с.

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